mandag, mars 19, 2007

True Believers and Utter Madness (1995)

Most of us live with uncertain beliefs, never totally sure what's right or wrong, true or false. We can't fathom people who feel so absolutely "right'' that they'll blow up a government building with a day-care center full of children.

Or kill doctors and receptionists at abortion clinics.

Or plant nerve gas in a subway full of defenseless commuters.

Or offer a million-dollar reward for the assassination of a "blaspheming'' author.

Or hole up with automatic weapons in a Waco doomsday cult, ready to fight the outside world.

Or shoot high school girls in the face in Algeria because they aren't wearing veils.

Or machine-gun Hindu weddings in Punjab to gain a Sikh theocracy, the Land of the Pure.

Or bomb the World Trade Center as a symbolic strike against "the Great Satan.''

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